Rossetti - quotes for gender and identity

Shut Out

• ‘Let me have some buds to cheer my outcast state’

• ‘Shadowy spirit’

Winter: My Secret

• Only, my secret’s mine, and I won’t tell’

Maude Clare

• ‘His bride was like a village maid, / Maude Clare was like a queen.’

• ‘Take my share of a fickle heart…’

• ‘For he’s my lord for better, for worse, / And him I love Maude Clare.’

• ‘I’ll love him till he loves me best, / Me best of all Maude Clare.’

No, Thank you, John

• ‘I never said I loved you, John’

• ‘I dare say Meg or Moll would take pity on you…’

• ‘Here’s friendship for you; but love-/ No, thank you, John.’

• ‘I’d rather say ‘No’ to fifty Johns / Than answer yes to you.’

Twice

• ‘Yet a woman’s words are weak: / You should speak not I.’

• ‘With a critical eye you scanned…’

Soeur Louise de la Miséricorde

• ‘Where is the hire for which my life was hired?’

• ‘disenkindled fire’

• ‘Oh vanity of vanities, desire.’

Margery

• ‘A foolish girl, to love a man / And let him know she loved him so!’